[jackfrost99]

My wife has a G3 600 iBook with 256ram
I want to run windows and a SIMPLE non cpu intensive program on it (stock charting - just scrolling through end of day charts).
I am thinking of adding 512 to the existing 128. WILL that be enough to run windows adequately (it runs SLOOOOW with the current 256meg of ram.
Jack

[mrdurp4]

if i where you id just kill the mac and buy a nice dell inspiron B130 notebook

[VegasACF]

Sheesh. There ought to be a minimum IQ to reply to a question.

In short, a little bit. More RAM is never a bad thing. But what you need isn't memory. It's processing power.

VPC, which I'm having to guess you're using, since you don't say as much, is painfully slow, no matter how much RAM you have, as you're asking a CPU built to work with a certain set of parameters to use software that was written to work with a different set of parameters, after the code that makes up that software is translated by another piece of software to work within the parameters of software which is written with the full intention of using the first set of parameters to interpret the second set of parameters, make sense of it, and then reverse the process.

Emulators work best when what is being emulated is simple (say, certain coin-operated video games, certain console machines). Windows is incredibly complicated (hence, many of its problems). I doubt seriously that adding RAM to the machine will have a major impact on your results. What you need is more CPU power. And even then VPC will be painfully slow.

Is there no Mac-compatible program which will do what you seek?

[ferrija1]

If you want to run Windows on a Mac, you'll probably want to get a new Mac, since yours is old and is not Intel-based.